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Here is thought:

Damage magic is normal for general use, but it's possible to acquire individual runes that let you cast the highest-level magic spell (can't be made, only acquired) through a quest. However, these only let you get 1-2 spell casts out of them, so you have to use them wisely.

Question's and thing's
• Start NPCs with 0 gold (theoretically the only gold they will have on hand is money that other players have spent, correct?) or don't give them buyback capabilities if it's possible
• Think about possibly making some skills cost more, or reducing starting skill points. This one needs some thought because the intent is to prevent a single person from getting too many skills to start off, but can accidentally fck over others
• Reducing buff magic (like +int, +str etc) amounts
• Reducing bonuses from items, capping somewhere around 30-40 or so? Reduce individual jewelry bonuses per item or set the cap somewhere that every item you have should be giving a different bonus to a different skill?
• Possibly advertise outside of these forums and see if new users would be interested?
• Modify experience for crafting usages to be increased? ["1: fighters level way faster than crafters"]
• What are your thoughts on reworking standard potions in a different way: higher tier potions increase the time duration of the buff as opposed to giving more skill, allowing you to carry less weight/items around? The intent is to reduce outside bonuses.

Rules
• What rules should be implemented?
• Should chat be moderated heavily or at all?

Events
• How should events or other "just for fun" things be run? Automated scripts? Manually run by admins?

Quests
• What kind of combat level should quests be made up to at launch? Assuming normal, average gameplay, what defence/attack/level do players normally reach by week 1, week 2, week 3?
• Is there a way to limit quest completions, for example rejecting further hand-ins for things like unique items? [3 *2 "crafter supply quest ideas"]
• Would you be interested in random optional side quests? For example a locked door somewhere that requires a key from a previous (or even further back) quest, or a gift for helping out a NPC that you don't know beforehand or...
• Randomly generated maps? Maybe some mazelike quests or dark dungeons could be different paths, different boss/reward locations every day

Based on responses so far, tentative plans are:

● Non PK, half of world is forced PK, in addition to switching between PK/NPK, starting town is forced NPK, other towns will not be
● No multiple characters
● No tutorial island, but: spawn in a small non-town with attached practice area and some signs that tell you how to do basics, with immediate opt-out warp

● One vote for accelerated reset monthly world, majority is long term, so long term it is
● No permadeath, no stealing (both are majority no)
● Launch will probably be on a Friday evening, CST/EST US time zone
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● Low level quests made first, high level quests come later
● Only one vote for empty world, majority is "A few quests and at least one town, but reuse some old maps"
● 0!!! votes on "default v2 blacksmithing", why is/was it default if no one likes it anyway? All comments say they don't want moulds.

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One of the comments was

since the population of servers is usually gone within a couple weeks it can help to have multiple chars on main to make equipment it would take some away from people who only to traders but they would be the first ones to be able to make high level equipment

for "allow multiple characters per player".

What are your thoughts on starting with 1, and if the player base drops later on, add additional character slots or make it an acquireable bonus in game for some complex quest or otherwise?

If you're going to make a world, take it seriously. Don't add in any crazy wolf like double XP gain or weapon spawns with trapped behemoths or something like that. Stick to the tried-and-true methods you've seen that make a world successful.

I was thinking possibly something like "accelerated XP gain + entire world is PK + all skills are free + reset the world once a month and post leaderboards of highest levels" for something like that, not "here pick up your cooking knife at the door"

I don't want to step on any toes if someone else is already planning on starting a new world soon. I've read some of the other posts and I should probably point out right now that donations, paying for items, etc., will not be a thing for this world, ever.

BTW - does anyone have old files, images, inis I can base off of or take pieces from? Client-side files (.dat) work too.

Add a server here..

Replace existing autoupdater.exe with attached. There are no changes other than the update paths.


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Thanks to http://rpgwoforums.net/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=1

Make own updater then?

Is there an expected open date for this ?

I'm attempting to set up a 24/7 pk server, but right now it's just finding a host. I do have an idea with using the amazon servers as one, but I can't figure out the port forwarding on it

Console > Security Groups > Select your security group (might be 'default')

Edit inbound rules
Type: Custom TCP
Protocol: TCP
Port Range: (whatever port you set it for, like 4000)
Source: Anywhere 0.0.0.0/0

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